While the initial reports on the State of the Union speech were that President Obama would focus on reassuring Americans that the ISIS war wouldn’t snowball into something much larger, the most recent reports are that he will center foreign policy comments on a push for Congressional authorization for that conflict.
Analysts say they’ve been told he will offer a “full-throated defense” of the ISIS war in general, while pressing Congress to give him a rubber-stamp authorization for it. This likely means the assurances about the war not escalating will be as empty as they’ve been in recent months.
By law, a war should have a Congressional vote within 90 days. There was no vote, as the outgoing Congress didn’t want to make this an election issue, and President Obama is now seeking it, much after the fact, from the new, more hawkish Congress.
Obama has insisted in the past he doesn’t need authorizations for his assorted wars, but now he is pressing for one simply to prove that the government is “united” in the new war. Sen. Lindsey Graham (R – SC), an outspoken hawk, has promised to support any authorization.
In Russia drugs are now expensive for old people : Obama is happy about it. They will not forget, they will not forgive.
In America, "…drugs are now expensive for old people : Obama is happy about it. They will not forget, they will not forgive."
The biggest hole of this speech was that the "US economic miracle" was due to low wages which he now suggests to be rectified by a Republican Congress. I am sorry to say but this man is clueless because that is not going to happen and the fruits of the economic recovery will continue to fall into the laps of the few. "Middle Class Economy" is another moniker for capitalism.
Then again, there's that little thing in the Constitution about Congress being vested with the authority- and responsibility- of voting for or against the nation going to war. How about Congress stepping up to the plate and doing its duty for a change?
So the President seeks a war? How about going to Congress and laying out his plans and reasons and letting them do their job?
the war is over, of course you won, GO HOME.